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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNov 2016 "Republicans Are Already Talking About Impeaching Clinton"
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/republicans-are-already-talking-about-impeaching-clinton
With the latest polls showing Hillary Clinton remains likely to win the election on Tuesday, Republicans are preparing for the possibility of a second Clinton White House by promising to make the next four years a living hell. Some lawmakers are talking openly about refusing to approve any Supreme Court nominees until a Republican is elected president, the F.B.I. is investigating both the Clinton Foundation and the former secretary of states use of a private e-mail server, and House Republicans have vowed to launch additional investigations of their own. Now, a growing number of conservatives are warning that there could be a constitutional crisis if Clinton is elected, and threatening her with impeachment.
While the F.B.I. is currently looking into both Clinton and Donald Trump, there is currently no reason to believe an indictment is forthcoming, despite the large swath of F.B.I. personnel who reportedly see the Democratic nominee as the antichrist personified. The word investigation is a term of art in the F.B.I., reports NBCs Pete Williams. There was an initial inquiry that was opened a couple months ago based largely on media reports and a book called Clinton Cash. Still, that hasnt stopped a number of Republican lawmakers from jumping the gun. There's been nothing like this where you can have potential criminal charges, New York Rep. Peter King said in a radio interview Tuesday. You really could have a constitutional crisis here, he added, echoing a similar charge by Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner.
Other Republicans are already using the I word. Assuming she wins, and the investigation goes forward, and it looks like an indictment is pending, at that point in time, under the Constitution, the House of Representatives would engage in an impeachment trial," Texas Rep. Michael McCaul said on Fox News. They would go to the Senate and impeachment proceedings and removal would take place. Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson declared that Clinton could be impeached for high crime or misdemeanor. And Donald Trump, who has turned lock her up into a rallying cry at his campaign stops, said Wednesday that Clinton would be impeached just as surely as Bill Clinton was. You know its going to happen. And in all fairness, we went through it with her husband. He was impeached, the Republican nominee said at a rally in Florida Wednesday, adding that Hillary is most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency.
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Nov 2016 "Republicans Are Already Talking About Impeaching Clinton" (Original Post)
edhopper
Dec 2019
OP
So much for their whines of Trump's impeachment overturning the will of the people
The Genealogist
Dec 2019
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padah513
(2,506 posts)1. I remember that Cruz was one of them
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)2. So much for their whines of Trump's impeachment overturning the will of the people
They were planning on overrulimg even before they knew what the will of the people would be. I'm sure now, if presented with this article or one like it, they'd screech about it being fake news. That party is full of refuse.
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)3. Ah. Brings back lovely memories.
It would have all come true.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)5. Had Hillary won, with the senate and house republican
she would have been impeached in the first year.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)4. there were also numerous threats to impeach Obama
throughout his tenure
no_hypocrisy
(46,207 posts)6. Got news for y'all: this is the new normal
for awhile. It's not Clinton; Republicans in the House and/or Senate plan to shut down ANY AND ALL future democratic administrations.